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aldehyde
noun
Any of a large class of reactive organic compounds (R·CHO) having a carbonyl functional group attached to one hydrocarbon radical and a hydrogen atom.
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They break down into phenols, which can lend a smoky flavour to whisky, and into vanillin, a phenolic aldehyde that, as its name suggests, supplies a whiff of vanilla to the spirit.
This primed the ends of small, cleaved polymers with aldehyde groups, to which the researchers expected each of the four enzymes to attach easily.
The aldehyde can also be synthesized.
An aldehyde column, or purifier, is frequently used to separate these highly volatile low-boiling components, and sometimes ethyl alcohol is recovered in an extractive column and returned to the rectifier.
Oxidation is carried out by cytochrome P-450 monooxygenases, mixed-function amine oxidases, and alcohol and aldehyde dehydrogenases.
Subsequent reaction with aldehyde occurs in a manner minimizing steric hindrance.
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Of great commercial importance is the conversion of a carbohydrate in corncobs, oat husks, and other agricultural waste into furan-2-aldehyde, or furfural, which is used extensively as a solvent, in the manufacture of plastics, and in the preparation of other furan derivatives.
And many bugs make strong-smelling, aldehyde-rich body fluids to attract or repel other creatures.
Certain aldehydes are involved in physiological processes.
Tertiary alcohols cannot be oxidized at all without breaking carbon-carbon bonds, whereas primary alcohols can be oxidized to aldehydes or further oxidized to carboxylic acids.
Pyridinium chlorochromate, often abbreviated PCC, is a milder oxidant than chromic acid and oxidizes most primary alcohols to aldehydes.
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